CLCIV 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Claudette Colbert, Theda Bara, Siamese Cat
23 Mar 2016
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Colbert"s cleopatra: there is no accurate original to refer to, she resists one stable visual form, she embodies and problematizes ideas about identity, ambiguity, biases (past and present), On cleopatra schultz tells the story of a woman named manana from the republic of georgia. That was the bedrock of the album, he says of the tune. The singer and his wife came to know her through a friend. She drives taxis and is this badass lady she"ll pick you up at the airport with a cigarette hanging out her mouth and a beer can between your legs, he says. We live in a country fully of instagram and pictures of life more beautiful than you ever thought it could be and she comes from the exact opposite perspective and she doesn"t ask for pity. Demille"s powers of discipline and direction in a way that establishes her position as a white woman and master over others.
